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G. E. BOWER.

CHECK GASE.

No. 388,251. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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GEORGE E. BOXVER, OF AUBURN,

ATENT {OFFICE NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN H. LYNCH, OF SAME PLACE.

CHECK-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,251, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed January 11,1888. Serial No.260.393. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BOWER, of the city of Auburn, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chccl -Oases, of which the following is a description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front View; and Figs. 2 and 3 are side and top views, respectively.

My invention relates to cases for holding checks; and it consists in a novel construction of such cases, by means of which a number of the aforesaid checks are successively brought into position to be grasped and removed from [5 the case,while only a single check can be thus grasped and removed at one time.

' I construct my check-case in the following manner: W'ithin a frame, A, and secured upon a suitable back, B, I place the inclined ways O C O O C, which are made, as shown, in pon tions, which are combined to form a zigzag course or track, all within one vertical plane. The checks which I prefer to use are flat circular plates or disks of any suitable material, 2 although this formisnotessential. The ways OCare channeled to retain the checks by means of their projecting sides d d, while a cover of glass or other suitable material prevents the checks from falling forward. The extremities 0 of the different sections of the zigzag track G0 are joined to make it afford a continuous passage for the descent by gravity of the checks,

as shown. The upper end of the track 0 is provided with a suitably-enlarged mouth or hopper, E, for convenient insertion of the checks, while the lower end of said track Ois provided with a receiver or cup, G, formed to receive and hold a single check, a, at a time While the sides thereof are cut out, as shown at g, to afford a better grasp upon the check therein.

A slide, H, may be pushed down, when desired, to cover the lower extremity of the track 0, and thus prevent the checks from descending into the cup G.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a check-case, the vertical zigzag inclosed track 0 0, formed of the channeled strips d d, and provided with a cover to retain the checks from falling forward, in combination with an external fixed receiver, G, adapted to hold one check at a time, said receiver extending upward at the back of the check toits middle point, and provided with the recesses g in its sides to enable the check to be grasped, substantially as described.

GEORGE E. BOVVER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. LYNCH, FREDERICK I. ALLEN. 

